Board of Directors of the Offshore Energy Center inducts the Institute for Geophysics into the Center’s Hall of Fame as a Technology Pioneer in the field of “Search for Oil and Gas: Marine Exploration”

2001

John A. and Katherine G. Jackson School of Geosciences created within the College of Natural Sciences, with William L. Fisher appointed as director

2002

Bureau of Economic Geology begins operation of the Houston Research Center, core facility donated by BP